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Price: $20.00/500 grams (17.6 oz.)
Evaluated as espresso. Rich and round in the aroma with soft hints of milk chocolate, stone fruit and baking spice. In the small cup the flavors broaden: apricot and honeydew melon deepened by dark chocolate and fresh tobacco. Flavors soften and persist rather deeply in the finish. In two parts milk, candied citrus peel and caramelized fruit maintain rich authority.
Price: $10.50/250 grams (8.8 oz.)
Refined fruit-toned acidity points up flavors of ripe lemon, orange, honey and a toasty chocolate that becomes more pronounced in the finish. Syrupy mouthfeel, bright but balanced overall.
Layers of rose, peach and lemon in the aroma. Silky mouthfeel, medium body, crisp acidity. Flowers move forward in the cup with complex suggestions of rose and lavender and continued complications of ripe citrus and a sweeter stone fruit. The flavor intrigue carries seamlessly from cup to a dry-edged, flavor-saturated finish.
Notes of orange, caramel and cinnamon in aroma and cup. Straightforward with good intensity, elegant fruit-toned acidity, medium body and a silky mouthfeel. Flavors simplify in the finish, perhaps dampened by a slight hint of woody astringency.
Price: $10.50/250 grams (8.8 oz.)
Deep, pungent cup. Spicy, peach-toned fruit, dark chocolate, tart cherry with a hint of flowers in aroma and cup. Low-toned but rich acidity, syrupy mouthfeel. Long, resonant, almost sugary finish.
Price: $20.00/500 grams (17.6 oz.)
Evaluated as espresso. Deep dark chocolate and hints of fruit in the aroma. In the small cup the fruit becomes richer and distinct, showing cherry-like and floral complications that carry into a softly nuanced finish. Sweet and balanced in two parts milk, with sustained hints of fruit, butter and toast.
Delicate hints of orange, flowers and roasted nut in the aroma. Gently bright-toned acidity, lightly syrupy mouthfeel with juicy suggestions of lemon, orange, stone fruit and more flowers with a pungent hint of fresh-cut fir. Superb finish: Long, sweet, complex, fruit-toned.
Price: $15.00/16 ounces
Round and balanced throughout. Notes of crisp white wine, ripe lemon, caramel and a hint of flowers in aroma and cup. Refined acidity, bright but not overbearing; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Clean finishing with soft fruit and milk chocolate notes that intensify in the long.
Price: $14.75/12 ounces
Evaluated as espresso. Rich, concentrated fruit flavors in aroma and small cup: sweetly tart cranberry and pie cherry, floral top notes with a deepening hint of dark chocolate. Resonant, long, fruit-toned finish. Light-bodied. Balanced in two parts milk: The fruit softens toward milk chocolate but retains a pleasingly tart edge.
Price: $24.88/12 ounces
Pure, brightly balanced, distinctive cup. Perfumy, lavender-like flowers, milk chocolate, nut, and hints of plum-like fruit in aroma and cup. Juicy acidity; smooth, lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Sweet-toned, flavor-saturated finish.
Deep, sweet cherry, almost dessert-wine-like character in the aroma. Tangy, bright acidity, leanish though smooth mouthfeel. Big, sweet, concentrated fruit flavor that combines suggestions of black currant, tart cherry and lemon. Flavors persist in a rich finish.
Bright, balanced, delicate. Tart cherry, peach, black currant, rose-like flowers in aroma and cup. Giddily and sweetly bright acidity; light, silky-textured mouthfeel. Sweet, gently rich finish deeply saturated with flavor.
Intense aroma: suggestions of dried apricot, raisin, lemon, toast, bittersweet chocolate. Fruit-toned acidity, lightly syrupy mouthfeel and in the cup continued raisin, lemon, bittersweet chocolate. Fruit and chocolate persist in a cleanly sweet finish.
Spicy tea rose, gentle citrus and sweet berries in aroma and cup. A juicy and bright coffee that simplifies slightly in the rather clean and sweet-toned finish.
Price: $23.38/12 ounces
Rich and pungent aroma dominated by sweet aromatic wood and hinting at chocolate. Fruit forward acidity; soft, syrupy mouthfeel and complex flavors of tart cherry and vine-ripe raspberry, balanced by fir and dark chocolate. Deceptively simple finish, with bittersweet fruit-toned chocolate reemerging in the long.
Sweet-toned, crisp, low in acidity, balanced. Distinct nut tones, fresh-cut fir, caramel, orangy fruit in aroma and cup. Lean but smooth mouthfeel. Rich, quietly flavor-saturated finish.
A delicately bright-toned coffee, with sweet citrus and floral notes in aroma and cup. As the cup cools a hint of black currant emerges and sweetly persists in the long, toasty finish. Silky mouthfeel.
Rich, deep, grapy sweetness in aroma and cup, with distinct dark chocolate and cedar notes. Rich, rounded acidity, syrupy mouthfeel. Long, deep finish.
Price: $13.00/12 ounces
Richly floral, gently pungent. The floral notes are spicy and rose-like. Complicating hints of fir, citrus, cocoa, raisin. Bright but balanced acidity, syrupy mouthfeel. Very sweet, gently flavor-saturated finish.
Deep, pungently complex. Shifting hints of lemon, cherry, malt, dark chocolate, nut in aroma and cup. Soft acidity, slightly rough-textured but full mouthfeel, smoothly rich finish with impressive sweetness in the long.